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    • INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF 3 JOHN

     

    Chronological Notes relative to this Epistle.

    • Year of the Constantinopolitan era of the world, or that used by the Byzantine historians, and other eastern writers, 5593.
    • Year of the Alexandrian era of the world, 5587.
    • Year of the Antiochian era of the world, 5577.
    • Year of the world, according to Archbishop Usher, 4089.
    • Year of the world, according to Eusebius, in his Chronicon, 4311.
    • Year of the minor Jewish era of the world, or that in common use, 3845.
    • Year of the Greater Rabbinical era of the world, 4444.
    • Year from the Flood, according to Archbishop Usher, and the English Bible, 2433.
    • Year of the Cali yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 3187.
    • Year of the era of Iphitus, or since the first commencement of the Olympic games, 1025.
    • Year of the era of Nabonassar, king of Babylon, 834.
    • Year of the CCXVIth Olympiad, 1.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 832.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to Frontinus, 836.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to the Fasti Capitolini, 837.
    • Year from the building of Rome, according to Varro, which was that most generally used, 838.
    • Year of the era of the Seleucidae, 397.
    • Year of the Caesarean era of Antioch, 133.
    • Year of the Julian era, 130.
    • Year of the Spanish era, 123.
    • Year from the birth of Jesus Christ, according to Archbishop Usher, 89. 941
    • Year of the vulgar era of Christ’s nativity, 85.
    • Year of Artabanus IV., king of the Parthians, 4.
    • Year of the Dionysian period, or Easter Cycle, 86.
    • Year of the Grecian Cycle of nineteen years, or Common Golden Number, 10; or the year before the fourth embolismic.
    • Year of the Jewish Cycle of nineteen years, 7; or the year before the third embolismic.
    • Year of the Solar Cycle, 10.
    • Dominical Letter, it being the first year after the Bissextile, or Leap Year, B.
    • Day of the Jewish Passover, the twenty-seventh of March, which happened in this year on the Jewish Sabbath.
    • Easter Sunday, the third of April.
    • Epact, or age of the moon on the 22d of March, (the day of the earliest Easter Sunday possible,) 9.
    • Epact, according to the present mode of computation, or the moon’s age on New Year’s day, or the Calends of January, 17.
    • Monthly Epacts, or age of the moon on the Calends of each month respectively, (beginning with January,) 17, 19, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 24, 25, 27, 27.
    • Number of Direction, or the number of days from the twenty-first of March to the Jewish Passover, 6.
    • Year of the Emperor Flavius Domitianus Caesar, the last of those usually styled the Twelve Caesars, 5.
    • Roman Consuls, Domitianus Augustus Caesar, the eleventh time, and T. Aurelius Fulvus or Fulvius.
    • The years in which Domitian had been consul before were, A. D. 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 82, 83, and 84. It should be observed that the date of this epistle is very uncertain. The above is only upon the supposition that it was written about A. D. 85.

     

    THIS WAS CLIPPED FROM ADAM CLARK'S COMMENTARY, VOLUME 6.

    MR. CLARKS COMMENTARY IS A PUBLIC DOMAIN DOCUMENT.